A ripper, Russell. The Gooseneck, I'd reckon. Love the fruity roar of those old longstroke fours, after years of lusting after them on the old TT records John Surtees was kind enough to bring one out to Pukekohe Classic Festival in the late 1990s and give it a right old cranking for us. Phwoooaarrr...

No, not mine, germanty. Good story though: it's Hailwood's 7R sometime in '62. The pilot is Tom McCarthy who bought the bike in 1960. He says he saw it advertised in MCN, went down to Kings in Oxford with his Goldie as his trade in, and became the new owner of what I think must be the great man's '59 model 7R.http://www.vintagebi...r/#.UECjukQU7Ww

Yes Phil, imported from the other place ;) Phillips is on Vic Camp's Ducati and seems to be riding his nuts off to stay with them.. I never seen Croxford on a Macchi either....at least that's what it looks like.

Yes Phil, imported from the other place ;) Phillips is on Vic Camp's Ducati and seems to be riding his nuts off to stay with them.. I never seen Croxford on a Macchi either....at least that's what it looks like.

yes , I thought the same about him , must delve through some progs ....................looks like the Mint is on the Seeley , so 1966 ??

All beautiful.
I can't remember dogs ever being mentioned, it seems, in my muddled mind, to be a fairly recent restriction.
But I could be wrong (again).
Perhaps like "when all else fails read the instructions."

All beautiful.I can't remember dogs ever being mentioned, it seems, in my muddled mind, to be a fairly recent restriction.But I could be wrong (again).Perhaps like "when all else fails read the instructions."

I seem to remember Owen Greenwood used to have an old dog with him at race meetings .Bill Lawrence

I had either forgotten or never knew this, Renn. Thanks for the info. The 250 though was a six running concurrently?

So it was, being the base for the 297 cc RC 174 a year later

Coming back to your pic showing Mike in Salzburg and taking into account that it was a non championship race early in the season, the battered looking bike could be a RC 172 from the '65 season of course...the missing reverse cones of the exhaust pipes makes it quite likely. So I'm contradicting my first statement

I love these old Brit wagons they used for transporters back then. I can't help wondering though how they coped with climbing over the various mountain passes .... ?

Seeing these old transporters brought back memories of having got stuck on the wrong side of a tunnel when high in the Dolomites. We had hired an oversized campervan in Munich and had to turn it around on the big drop side of the mountain cos the rear end was too long to clear the rocks on the other side. Every time the 'Italian Job' comes on telly I begin to feel a bit nervous. Trundling up and over the passes - cos I don't think the road tunnels were there until the 60's - in a 1940's Bedford furniture van laden with bikes might have been eventful too.

This was posted in error earlier today. I watched it and thought it was pretty enthralling, even though they have too many wheels.

A year later Ken Kavanagh competed in a few Formula 1 GPs in a Maserati 250 F. As far as I know, he had to stop after the Belgian GP after a massive engine blow up in practice and possibly with not enough means to carry on?

A year later Ken Kavanagh competed in a few Formula 1 GPs in a Maserati 250 F. As far as I know, he had to stop after the Belgian GP after a massive engine blow up in practice and possibly with not enough means to carry on?

That does sound familiar, Renn. Maybe more to do with what he was prepared to spend rather than what he had ? Hope so. The film tells us it's a stinking hot day but this doesn't dissuade Mike Hawthorn from turning up at the circuit in his jacket, bow tie and puffing on his pipe

That does sound familiar, Renn. Maybe more to do with what he was prepared to spend rather than what he had ? Hope so. The film tells us it's a stinking hot day but this doesn't dissuade Mike Hawthorn from turning up at the circuit in his jacket, bow tie and puffing on his pipe

Very British indeed . Bob Anderson must have been one of the last privateers competing in Formula 1, he came from a wealthy family as far as I know. Paddy Driver took part in a Lotus 72 in a Formula 1 GP as late as '74 by the way

A year later Ken Kavanagh competed in a few Formula 1 GPs in a Maserati 250 F. As far as I know, he had to stop after the Belgian GP after a massive engine blow up in practice and possibly with not enough means to carry on?

He had a big shunt at Goodwood in the Glover Trophy in 1959 and never raced again. Kept the car until 1964.Keith Campbell also drove a 250F in 1958 in the Glover Trophy and the Aintree 200, and practiced for the Monaco GP.

That does sound familiar, Renn. Maybe more to do with what he was prepared to spend rather than what he had ? Hope so. The film tells us it's a stinking hot day but this doesn't dissuade Mike Hawthorn from turning up at the circuit in his jacket, bow tie and puffing on his pipe

All beautiful.I can't remember dogs ever being mentioned, it seems, in my muddled mind, to be a fairly recent restriction.But I could be wrong (again).Perhaps like "when all else fails read the instructions."

I seem to remember Owen Greenwood used to have an old dog with him at race meetings .Bill Lawrence

I checked gents: back in the day most British meetings banned them completely, with some allowing them if on a lead. Dunno about Continental Europe. Not a problem in Australia though.